They already need a warranty or reasonable cause to search you or your property. Not that I don't believe this is a bad thing, just seems redundant..

No laws... NONE apply to you, even as a citizen, in the border zone. Until customs has granted you entrance to the country you are without rights. You can be forced to unlock your phone, they can search and keep anything they want, they can refuse you entry, hold you indefinitely, etc.

And there is also no reason to comply with their request to unlock your devices.

You've really not understood.

You're statement here essentially says it's legal for them to just murder you in the border area because you refuse to allow them access to your device.

Um, duh. They CAN shoot you for that. And they've been known to do so for far less. You are acting as if you think this is not true, when it should be obvious that it IS true.

Why do you think it should be obvious that it IS true? I've not traveled the mexico / us border and likely never will. Why should something you believe as obvious, should be obvious to me?

It's obvious because we already established that you have NO rights in the border zone. None. There is no law. So given that we had established that and that you had acknowledged it would you then think that this one law would exist in the absence of all others?

Have you seen people shot because the security officer didn't like it that someone was chewing bubble gum. Cause that is less!

Of course not, the repercussions of doing so is what keeps them from doing it. If you start shooting people for no reason, all travel stops and foreign countries start embargoes or declaring war. But it is not law that stops it, it is common sense. And common sense has not always prevailed, like when the US border patrol has used the lawless no man's land to shoot that Mexican kid IN MEXICO.

And there is also no reason to comply with their request to unlock your devices.

You've really not understood.

You're statement here essentially says it's legal for them to just murder you in the border area because you refuse to allow them access to your device.

Um, duh. They CAN shoot you for that. And they've been known to do so for far less. You are acting as if you think this is not true, when it should be obvious that it IS true.

Why do you think it should be obvious that it IS true? I've not traveled the mexico / us border and likely never will. Why should something you believe as obvious, should be obvious to me?

It's obvious because we already established that you have NO rights in the border zone. None. There is no law. So given that we had established that and that you had acknowledged it would you then think that this one law would exist in the absence of all others?

But you are missing the fact that this is a lawless land! Why would a new law requiring a warrant some how be supported in a place where no law prevails?

But you are missing the fact that this is a lawless land! Why would a new law requiring a warrant some how be supported in a place where no law prevails?

Because the people with the guns there are on the job and don't want to be barred from re-entry to the US. Their co-workers would shoot them or arrest them. And once dragged back across a border, would go to jail.

This really is just basic border stuff. Think about who has the guns, how they got there and where they will go. There is no food, shelter, water or anything in the border zone. It's just several feet of distance in many cases. So laws applying to people that will take effect on re-entry are a big deal.